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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan laid the foundation stone on Saturday for the nation’s first new church building in nearly 100 years, saying it reflects the country’s religious diversity.

China is inventing new ways to force the closure of churches as part of its crackdown on Christianity.

An attorney representing Christians threatened at a wedding in northern India – with police joining in the verbal abuse and then arresting the Christians – couldn’t believe what was now happening to him.

A Jewish Rabbi who was spat on after conducting a prayer service has said that anti-semitism is spiraling out of control in Germany.

Persecution of Christians in Bihar state, India, has so intensified in the past two years that Pastor Shelton Viswanathan didn’t dare call police after Hindu extremists broke bones in his hand and foot.

After 183 years as a Roman Catholic nation, Bolivia officially became a secular country in 2009, when a new constitution, promulgated by the administration of its first indigenous leader, President Evo Morales, dropped any mention of the historic faith of its Spanish colonial rulers, bolstering the position of its pre-colonial religions.

Until recently, Uttarkashi in northern Indian was noted primarily for its beautiful scenery and Hindu temples, and because it shares a border with Tibet along the foothills of Himalayas, the region attracts many Westerners in search of “spiritual enlightenment.” Its most famous seekers? The Beatles.

A former ISIS soldier says he now believes Israel is a democratic state and wants to return to the country.

Members of the United Nations’ 54-nation economic and social council voted this week to condemn Israel as a country in the world that violates women’s rights.

China’s central government has intensified its crackdown on Christianity in recent months by pressuring local government officials to keep a count on the number of citizens who believe in God and to monitor them, according to a new report.